What steps should the U.S. take to curb outsourcing?

Big tax breaks for companies that set up shop in America. No tax breaks for companies that send our jobs overseas!!! It is a no brainer!!!

People have to start supporting businesses that do act responsibly, remain based in their community and employ local people. American products have had a long tradition of quality, offering superior value, function and durability over cheaper products manufactured off-shore using unskilled labour and low tech equipment. A good quality local product not only lasts longer while out performing low cost imitations, you know that the workers who made it were not chained to work benches or subjected to unacceptable pay and hazardous conditions.

The media and the public should endeavour to educate their communities about manufacturers and how their products are made. People should know about the working conditions many face in these off-shore manufacturing plants. People should also be educated about quality over quantity and how much their community is benefited by spending money at locally owned and operated businesses. We should all get to know our local businesses and lend our support where we can.

You may be able to purchase a product over the internet at a cheaper price than your local store, but what if purchasing locally for a little extra money kept someone employed. Perhaps that employee may spend money at your business, money they may not have if instead everyone living locally was to buy their goods online from out-of-town locations. There will always be products that local shops don't stock, but if you ask about these products you at least help inform them about interests and demand. Rampant online consumption can leave you feeling unfulfilled with your purchase, but local shopping allows you to sample, feel or test a product, and leaves you with the knowledge you are doing a little to help your community.

Essential to the continued operation of local businesses is support from both public and media in times of trouble. If a business is being stood over by corrupt bureaucrats or powerful competing interests (these often go hand-in-hand with one another), it is of the utmost importance that the surrounding community stand against such criminal anticompetitive behaviour and help garner as much media exposure as possible. If communities fail to act when corruption first shows it's ugly face, this disease often becomes entrenched. Corruption destroys or stifles businesses, harming the prosperity and growth of the entire community in the process. Small business needs an equal footing and room to grow if it is to reach it's potential and deliver the full benefit to the community that it is capable of. People often do not risk to dream again if they are dealt a harsh, undeserved and unjustified blow that renders their years of effort null and void.

the American compaPhilosophical12b I thought I was clear about this (you should shorten your name) How would you like a company like GE having no US employees? Every worker for for GE lives and works in China. GE can mke a lot more money screwing us and as a bonus they won't have to deal with minimumwage issues. The bosses of GE will live here and collect money with out having to pay for security against angry under paid employees. If they want to sell in this country they should have to produce in this country...or pay a fine or an import tax...idiot

The "US" isn't going to do anything, the "US" is run by corporate America. The only thing that can be done on any of these economic fronts is massive boycotts throughout the country. Corporations are in effect robbing this country with offshore banking as a means of not even paying taxes on profits. Jobs? please, maybe when Wall St crashes and wages go down to nothing will jobs come back here. We are so screwed now and we can't even do anything about it cause there's no united front to fix it. OWS is a start but not the fix. We have to take the money away from the lobbyists, the bankers, the politicians and the militarized police. We have to act in unison, you know the old saying.

it's simple, if you don't make it here you don't sell it here! Any company outsourcing Jobs will lose it's ability to do business here in this country. Then the Government can start up it's own company to replace the one who can no longer do business here. For Us By Us!

I have heard the argument that tariffs would discourage other countries from buying American manufactured goods. I have just never been able to figure out what manufactured goods they're talking about.

Tariffs, Tariffs, TARIFFS!

Phase out NAFTA, CAFTA and every other trade agreement that does nothing to benefit anyone but create profits for corporations at the expense of our environment and the peoples of those countries and Americans.

Assuming a PUBLIC HANGING of corporate heads who hire cheap labor overseas instead of Americans is out of the quesrtion....ar LEAST tax the crap pouta them. Seriously....shouldnt the outsourcing of AMERICAN jobs be considered ANTI-AMERICAN? Passive/aggressive Terrorism?

Easy question, stop paying companies to outsource. Obama has it right when he talks about rewarding companies that 'insource', (that should be the word of the year)!!!

Make it more expensive for American companies to import products that American companies profit from.

fine or penalize companies outsourcing and force them to invest in local schools

Tie tax incentives to hiring at home.
Also, start a propaganda campaign similar to how the auto industry shamed people from buying foreign cars, forcing foreign manufacturers to build plants in America.